The conventions of what we see on TV are such that we’re frozen. We often fail to see that what we see as normal is absurd.

Conditioned, intellectually immobilized moments include those regularly seen on NFL telecasts, after the game’s first punt, when a camera shows the other’s team’s quarterback strapping on his helmet, running out on the field.

We’ve probably seen that 20 times from Eli Manning. “Yeah, come on, fellas, here we go! …” Followed by here-we-go warrior music, preface to a cutaway to Peyton Manning pizza and insurance commercials.

Where is everyone going? They don’t know by now that nothing’s going to happen, that punts are followed by TV timeouts?

Ever debrief someone who just attended his or her first NFL game in years? Primary impressions include how often both teams have to loiter on the field — just standing around — awaiting the ends of commercial breaks before the game resumes.

With that, we introduce Les Abrams, who for 35 years sold TV ad time. With the reminder “local stations only can sell ads before the opening kickoff, at halftime and at the end of the third quarter,” Abrams presents: “My solution to the plethora of ads in NFL games, which for sure leads to lower viewership:

“Currently, there are commercial breaks every time there’s a change of possession, after every score, extra point, injuries, et al. Fine, let’s leave that alone.

“However, let’s eliminate the commercials after kickoffs following a scoring play. On average, this may mean eliminating 7-9 breaks per game — each lasting 2-2 ½ minutes.

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“Yet, this would be similar to a ploy called a ‘hot join,’ where no commercials air between two separate shows. The theory is to keep the audience flow from one show to the next.

“The NFL’s networks can afford this, the local affiliates are not affected and the viewers come out ahead.”

Shucks, over the long and short haul, everyone would/should come out ahead!

But would the NFL and its networks see it that way? Can either or both take a little less to serve the greater good, to save themselves from themselves?

Who knows? Maybe commissioner Roger Goodell, who claims his service is “all about the fans,” could get by on $25 million a year instead of his $35 million per average. Sure, it will mean some scrimping, but the good of the game — a game once action-loaded but now tasks the central nervous system with more stops than the F train — might be better served.

It is not as if the NFL is inflexible over TV considerations. Hardly. Just last week the league moved the Nov. 27 Patriots-Jets game from an 8:30 p.m. start on NBC, to a 4:25 p.m. start on CBS. Chiefs-Broncos was moved from 4:25 on CBS to 8:30 on NBC.

But doesn’t that late, and suddenly, alter the plans of tens of thousands of people, both NFL patrons and game-day/night work forces?

And aren’t night games played outdoors in Denver in late November to be avoided as a matter of weather — comfort and safety?

Doesn’t matter, not to the NFL. Anything can be done for TV, more specifically, TV money.

While we’re at it, the Mets, for a second straight season, have no Saturday, 1 p.m. home starts scheduled. Who loves ya, kids?

And if Sunday afternoon games are the option, beware of the now standard late-switch to you-can’t-be-serious late-night Sunday games as per ESPN’s purchased authority.

Sports (mis)treats big TV-market children and their families differently than other American children and their families. Yeah, I know, it’s business.

Football or ‘Dancing with the Stars’?

Odell Beckham Jr.Photo: Getty Images

TV remains under the pathetic misperception that America watches football to see players perform immodest post-play dances and any and all acts of self-aggrandizement.

Maybe he will be remembered for his dancing as opposed to his football talent. Maybe Tommy John will be remembered as a famous surgeon.

One might think Beckham and TV’s shot-callers and advertisers would choose to emphasize his pass-catching skill as opposed to his obligatory self-glorifications. But, as they say in baseball, the game has changed.

And with all that time to kill, why doesn’t ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” — now with six on-site panelists — package all the misconduct penalties from NFL games the day and night before, then examine how those penalties altered the outcomes of games.

If you’re going to “break down” games, then break them down!

And ESPN still can’t get enough of promoting their new guy, late of FOX, Randy Moss, by showing him miming a “moon” to the crowd after scoring a TD.

What’s the message? At ESPN we reward those who diminished their sport, played without class. And that’s the same regard we have for our viewers!

What could posse-bly go wrong?

Cavaliers star LeBron JamesPhoto: Getty Images

Posse? First time I heard the word was on Westerns, when the sheriff formed a posse to chase down the stagecoach bandits.

Next? Heard it frequently, but not exclusively, from African-Americans as slang for their buddies, their “crew.” As if Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James don’t know that.

Then the expression mostly dried up, until last week when Phil Jackson was found to have used it as per James & Co.

Didn’t strike me as ill-intended, certainly not racist, but rather as a reach for a hip expression that a few years back had the hipness drained from it.

And now, as Steve Somers said on WFAN, a furor has erupted over “much ado about nothing.”

Meanwhile, if this weren’t another case of selective, perhaps forced indignation — if we knew Anthony was so racially sensitive to certain words — I would have encouraged him to have black men cease calling, rapping, texting, tweeting black men the N-word, especially when it was trending dead.

Or maybe, after starting with “posse,” he’ll get to that one.

Even when “Let’s Be Honest” Mike Francesa post-bets the race — waits until it is well underway before expertly touting the winner — he is colossally wrong.

With the Vikings at 5-0, Francesa claimed he picked them to win the NFC, which, oddly enough, no one heard until then. Since then, the Vikes have lost four straight.

On the other hand, Friday on YES/ESPN-NY Radio drive time, Michael Kay said he is 19-30-1 on his NFL picks. Francesa, though, who is never right, never has once been wrong.